Lifecourse and cohort factors in adult basic skills levels.

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Bibliography: Christopher, M., Lahmar, amal, 2017. Lifecourse and cohort factors in adult basic skills levels. Foresight, Government Office for Science.

Authors:: Miles Christopher, amal Lahmar

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First-page: 5

Abstract

The average attainment in literacy and numeracy skills of adults in England follows a shallow inverted U-shaped curve across age-groups, rising during young adulthood, remaining roughly level for the main part of the working life, and then decreasing in older age. This is broadly visible in Figure 1, which shows the average literacy and numeracy performance of adults in England by 5-year age-groups, according to the PIAAC 2012 Survey of Adult Skills.

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& The average attainment in literacy and numeracy skills of adults in England follows a shallow inverted U-shaped curve across age-groups, rising during young adulthood, remaining roughly level for the main part of the working life, and then decreasing in older age. This is broadly visible in Figure 1, which shows the average literacy and numeracy performance of adults in England by 5-year age-groups, according to the PIAAC 2012 Survey of Adult Skills. (p. 5)
& In the past, it has sometimes been assumed that this pattern was the result of cohort factors, whereby the lower than average literacy and numeracy performance of 16- to 24-year-olds in England, as measured in the PIAAC survey in 2012, would stay at that level across their lives; however, this assumption is untested. An alternative explanation is that the pattern observed is the result of life course factors, that is, young people’s literacy and numeracy skills would follow the inverted U-shaped trajectory. (p. 5)